Ezekiel 32:1-16
1599 Geneva Bible
32 2 The Prophet is commanded to bewail Pharaoh King of Egypt. 12 He prophesieth that destruction shall come unto Egypt through the King of Babylon.
1 And in the [a]twelfth year in the twelfth month, and in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a [b]lion of the nations, and art as a [c]dragon in the sea: thou castedst out thy rivers [d]and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and stampedst in their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord God, (A)I will therefore spread my net over thee a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come up into my net,
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, and I will cast thee upon the open field, and I will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill all the beasts of the field with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys [e]with thine height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou [f]swimmest, even to the mountains, and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall [g]put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark: (B)I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the lights of heaven will I make dark for thee, and bring [h]darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, and upon the countries which thou hast not known.
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be astonished with fear for thee, when I shall make my sword to glitter against their faces, and they shall be afraid at every moment: every man for his own life in the day of thy fall.
11 For thus saith the Lord God, The sword of the king of Babel shall come upon thee.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall: they all shall be terrible nations, and they shall destroy the [i]pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be consumed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make [j]their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
16 This is the mourning wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 32:1 Which was the first year of the general captivity under Zedekiah.
- Ezekiel 32:2 Thus the scriptures compare tyrants to cruel and huge beasts which devour all that be weaker than they, and such as they may overcome.
- Ezekiel 32:2 Or, whale.
- Ezekiel 32:2 Thou preparest great armies.
- Ezekiel 32:5 With heaps of the carcasses of thine army.
- Ezekiel 32:6 As Nile overfloweth Egypt, so will I make the blood of thine host to overflow it.
- Ezekiel 32:7 The word signifieth to be put out as a candle is put out.
- Ezekiel 32:8 By this manner of speech is meant the great sorrow that shall be for the slaughter of the king and his people.
- Ezekiel 32:12 This came to pass in less than four years after this prophecy.
- Ezekiel 32:14 To wit, of the Chaldeans thine enemies, which shall quietly enjoy all thy commodities.
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